South America's rightward shift has created a more favorable environment for the Trump administration to expand its influence across the Western Hemisphere.
The hand is one of the most complex parts of the humanoid robot puzzle. China is making a big bet on it by pouring money and effort into developing robotic versions that can work like the real thing.
"Fall like a maple seed, sail like a boat" sounds like advice from legendary heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali. In reality, it describes a new robotic platform scientists have created for fast, long-term deployment to monitor remote waters.
"Good' students wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson of them all: we must wait for other people, better trained than ourselves, to make the meanings of our lives...."
• https://www.lewrockwell.com,By Jacob G. Hornberger
In a Wall Street Journal article about how the U.S. government's deportation machine now has Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar in its sights, the Wall Street Journal's assistant editor James Freeman included a phrase that caught my eye.
As we transition from fall into winter here in North Idaho, we're looking at everything from livestock and food storage to daily chores and what it really means to become more self-sufficient.
• Beyond Labels Podcast - Joel Salatin - YouTube.com
Farmer Joel Salatin and Dr. Sina McCullough examine a new preprint claiming that organic grass-fed beef produces a larger carbon footprint than conventional grain-fed beef.
What if you could turn ordinary sand into a rock-solid building material without spending a fortune on concrete? Around the world, innovative construction techniques and traditional Japanese methods are inspiring new ways to think about affordable bu
Solar panels plus farming? Agrivoltaics explained. Could combining solar panels plus farming be a viable solution to the growing demand for food production and energy demand? Let's take a closer look at electrifying our crops (not literally electri
ACTC has created a Manifesto describing our ethics as we develop next-generation development efforts. It's an important description of what the goals and approach what software should be in the age of AI.
Chinese automotive giant BYD, now the world's biggest electric vehicle (EV) maker, stunned this week's Paris Motor Show with its grandest and most technologically impressive vehicle yet.
On 22 October, after more than three years of relentless litigation, seven plaintiffs reach the substantive hearing in their extraordinary case against the Dutch State, Mark Rutte, Bill Gates and other defendants.
In the second episode of The Unlimited Hangout Podcast, Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin discuss their latest investigation into OpenAI's Stargate Argentina data center and the man behind it Emiliano Kargieman.
Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, & parents from their children, & compel them to fight the battles of any war, in which the folly or the wickedness of
The first thing I did the other day after I sat down in the all-new (just updated for 2026) Mazda CX-5 that was dropped off for me to test drive and write about was disable about (the review is here, if interested) a dozen different "assistance tec
A Santa Fe jury found Meta liable for willfully deceiving consumers, resulting in more than 43 million violations of the state's consumer protection law, according to court proceedings reported by the news agency.
Reminding me of those toys where you could swap around parts to make a brand-new toy, Anduril's new Steelfin interceptor missile family uses a two-stage design that allows the vehicle to be quickly reconfigured to counter emerging missile threats.